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In spite of Louis's public rejection of the equestrian statue, its form inspired future royal portraits of the King, including a marble creation by Antoine Coysevox depicting Louis XIV on horseback which sits in the Salon of War at Versailles, making corrections to facial characteristics created by Bernini which the French king interpreted as a ...
The equestrian statue of Louis XIV is a bronze equestrian statue of the King of France Louis XIV, located on the Place d'Armes in front of the Palace of Versailles. Until 2008–2009, it was located in the cour d'honneur.
The Bust of Louis XIV is a marble portrait by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. It was created in the year 1665 during Bernini's visit to Paris . This sculptural portrait of Louis XIV of France has been called the "grandest piece of portraiture of the Baroque age". [ 1 ]
The bronze equestrian statue of Louis XIV (Statue équestre de Louis XIV), a sculpture created by both Pierre Cartellier (1757–1831) and Louis Petitot (1794–1862) and completed in 1836, was restored in 2009. On April 27, 2009, the statue, having previously been situated in the courtyard (Cour d'Honneur), was placed outside the gates on the ...
The Orangerie shelters an assortment of statuary, the most famous of which is an equestrian statue of Louis XIV by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the most prominent sculptor of the Baroque period. [8] Louis XIV was famously displeased with the likeness of Bernini's statue of him, ordering its destruction when he first saw it in 1685.
Marble statue of Louis XIV at the Palace of Versailles, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1670s); now replaced by a copy at the end of the pièce d'eau des Suisses []; Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans in Neuilly-sur-Seine, by Carlo Marochetti (1845), initially erected near Djamaa el Djedid in Algiers and relocated in 1981 [3]
François Girardon (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃swa ʒiʁaʁdɔ̃]; 17 March 1628 [1] – 1 September 1715) was a French sculptor of the Louis XIV style or French Baroque, best known for his statues and busts of Louis XIV and for his statuary in the gardens of the Palace of Versailles.
The labyrinth of Versailles was a hedge maze in the Gardens of Versailles with groups of fountains and sculptures depicting Aesop's Fables. [1] André Le Nôtre initially planned a maze of unadorned paths in 1665, but in 1669, Charles Perrault advised Louis XIV to include thirty-nine fountains, each representing one of the fables of Aesop .